Race, color, identity [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century / / edited by Efraim Sicher

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Jews - United States - Identity; African Americans - Relations with Jews; Race - United States; Jews - Great Britain; Muslims - Relations with Jews; Jews - Africa - Identity; Genetics; Jews, Ethiopian - Israel
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Ethnic relations; United States Ethnic relations
• Soggetto non controllato: Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies (General), Sociology
• Altri autori: SicherEfraim
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-363) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Jews and race in America -- pt. II. Jews as blacks/black jews -- pt. III. Discourses of racial and ethnic identities.
• Sommario/riassunto: Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and "Jews", and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors-leading scholars in anthropology, sociology,
• Titolo autorizzato: Race, color, identity
• ISBN: 0-85745-893-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779840903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II